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ITEMS FROM THE BLUE GRASS REGION. Lexington. Ky., April 2. — Secretary 0, 1. Wilson of the Kentucky Racing Association has received a letter from Will Shelley, of LoakrrUle. who will be racing secretary and have general management of the Lexington spring meeting, stating that he will arrive and o|ieu his office here on Monday. .lr. Shelley upon his arrival will immediately take up the details of the approaching meeting, witli which he will be kept busy until after the races are over. One of the first problems he will have to face will be the assignment of stalls at Ilie track, for which there is already a tremendous demand from turfmen in various parts of the country who want to bring their horses here for the spring meeting. Mr. Shelley wiil also have the delicate job of assigning weights for the crack three-year-olds that will start in the Camden Handicap. Herman B. Din-yea is here for a itay or two as i he guest i.r John E. Madden at Hamburg Place. At the Kentucky Association course this morning he discussed tin- racing outlook in the east. He says that if late Agnew Mils are defeated the pros |M-cts for a suciesstiil season are good, hut he added: •If the bills should 1m- passed by the legislature the result will be general discouragement, ami in such an event I shall resign as a member of the Jockey Club." Jockey Walter Ott, who went to India last fall under contract to Dr. Harry Chain Bassler, lias just leturned and says that they had great luck with the American thoroughbreds Dr. Bassler teat over and raced during the winter at Bombay and Calcutta. Ott. after a sln.rt vi-nit to his mother in Chicago, will come hack to Kentucky to ride. Dr. Bassler will come back to America iu May to buy another consignment of horses for Indian racing. The liest moves at the local track this morning included a half iu 50 by the two-yeur-oldis. Marsau ■ind Tom Fisher, in John Irelands string, and a half in Sl| by Monte Fox. from Will Steels stable. Foals dropiied at Castleton Stud this week were a black filly by Peter Pan — Maid of Erin dam of Celt I : brown colt by Disguisi — Contentious; brown filly by Peter Pan — Swift Peat: chestnut filly by Voter— =-Po|h Joan; Iwiy colt by Ben Brush — Sorcery: chestnut til 1 v bv Peter Pan — Dazzling, and brown tilly by Ben Brush— Dove tite. Trainer J. I. Smith left here this afternoon for Cravesend with four two-year-olds that he has been handling for "Lucky Jack" MeCinnis at K. K. Rrad-leys Idle Hour Farm. The youngsters are Bob Vernon, a chestnut colt by Broomstick — Run of Luck: Cakaa, chestnut colt hy Canard — Bonnie Belle: Sam Jackson, bay colt by Carry Hermann — Ravello II. dam of Frank iilli ami an unnamed chestnut filly by Nasturtium — Pink Rose dam of Magazine.!. Cu-bon and the Pink Rose tilly worked halves in 50 over the Idle Hour Farm track. Four foals by Frank Jill, all that that dead son of Collar and Ravello II. will have to perpetuate his name on the turf, have arrived at Idle Hour Farm. They are a bay colt out of Coy Maid, a chestnut filly out of Wayward Lass, a bay filly from Run of Luck and a chest nut filly out of Inspiration. In the car with the M.-Ciiinis youngsters went live belonging jointly to Messrs. Cateshy Woodford and Walter B. Jennings that have been in training at the local track iu charge of John T. Ireland and John Rodcgap and are to be turned over to Mr. Jennings at Cravesend. They are Star Blue and his two-year-ohl brother by Star Shoot — Bonnie Blue; Any Port, the two-year-old son of Star Shoot and Amy Davenport; a black colt by Sir Dixon — Kxprcssing and a bay colt brother to Doctor Mathews by Star Shoot — fair Penitent. John K. Madden shipped the three-year-olds. Newmarket and Agreeable, and a two-year-old chestnut colt by The Scribe— Colline. The St. James Stable, the property of Irving H. Wheatcroft. which has been racing at Moncreif Park. Jacksonville. Kla.. all winter, will be brought to this city within the next two weeks. Mr. Wheatcroft. upon his return from Jacksonville this week, made application to Superintendent J. P. Ross of the Kentucky Association for stable room. The string, which is in charge of trainer Lew Marion, numbers ten horses, incliidimr the winner of the rich Florida Special, tlreen Seal: Woolw inder. Hasty Agnes. Crande Dame. Anderson. Starover. Alfred the ireat. Miss Sain and two two-year-olds. They are all in good racing condition, and the St. James Stable will probably furure prominently in the stakes and purses here. The eight two-year-olds that trainer Steele is handling here for Mr. Wheatcroft will he turned over to trainer Marion. Probably the oldest •exercise boy" in the world is located at the Kentucky Association track. He is employed to handle the stable of Squire Allen, of Nashville. Tenn.. and he is said to be sixty-four years of age. The Allen stable, which consists of one horse, arrived a week ago. The trainers and stable boys were astonished the next day when the horse appeared on the track witli a man in the saddle. One trainer, thinking that the old mans stable bov hail deserted him. proffered the services of his boy. He was told by the old man that the exercising was always done by him. So far the man who defies Dr. Osier 1 as not confided his name to anyone. He is an Knglishman by birth and rides bis charge in the Kmrlish style, sitting very erect. He amuses the stable lmys. but the trainers say In- may Idol the wise ones by winning a race or two.
